I thought I'd bring this new distro to Sluggers attention! It's developed by a small team at a college in Switzerland, and it's based on Slackware 8.1. Their goal was to create something easier to install than the real Slack, great for learning about Linux, yet still useable on the desktop. And that's exactly what it is. They have a custom installer that more or less takes care of setting up the video, sound, etc. There are a couple of bugs here and there, but the thing is useable. There are some nice touches like preconfigured flash and java plugins ready to go out of the box, latest version of Open Office, and LinNeighborhood. It feels fast and perfectly stable, but since they wanted to be 100% compatible with stable Slackware, most of the software is not up to the latest versions. KDE on 3.0.1, Mozilla on 1.0, and kernel 2.4.18.
As it stands, it's already a good, useable system that does exactly what it aimed to do. It allows even someone with only moderate experience to install their very own Slackware system. And because it's free it could be quite handy for small non-profit organisations that need to do office work, web browsing and email jobs without worrying too much about setting it all up. In fact, it could be useful for anyone who'd rather have stability and modest hardware requirements rather than latest toys. Perhaps Computerbank would be interested? They also have lots of plans for the next release, due in a couple of weeks, including the current kernel and more up-to-date desktop environment. I hope I'm not revealing any secrets when I say they are considering going with Gnome2.2 instead of KDE, and if that goes ahead, they might become the only distro out there I can think of that would be solely Gnome based. I thought Jeff would be interested! Anyhow, if you'd like to check them out, they are at <http://www.college.ch/linux> --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it." -- Gustave Flaubert -- 12:58:20 up 16:25, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.05-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
